Oami Amarasingham joined MPHA as Deputy Director in 2022. During her tenure with MPHA, Oami has overseen the policy team’s excellent work winning statewide funding for Regional Transit Authorities, transforming Massachusetts’s local public health infrastructure, advancing harm reduction and overdose prevention efforts, improving access to healthy food statewide, and more. Before coming to MPHA, Oami most recently served as Deputy Legislative Director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts, where she led the organization’s legislative work on criminal law reform. Prior to that, she was the Advocacy Director of the ACLU of Maine, where she worked to pass first-in-the-nation privacy laws, expand access to abortion care, and advance public health-centered drug policy. Oami earned her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College.